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[–] base@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

fair enough, maybe i'm stupid(which i am) but give me a usecase for 32gb of ram. completly disregarding the fact that this thing is a phone. Using it as an desktop device via an usb-c hub. when do you need 32gb of ram involving software which isnt bottlenecked by a 5 year old mobile chip? My 12 core AMD 3900X and my 5800X3d ramp up their cooling fans before my RAM gets maxed out with eg Firefox. C'mon i already admitted that there are edge cases. But this configuration is weird man. Especially considering that linux in itself isnt a ram hog in general.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh, I'm not disagreeing with it being weird, my main point was to switch the weirdness towards battery use as nothing else matters.

And CPU doesn't bottleneck RAM usage.

As for use case (which again, I'm not disagreeing as my main point is "it wouldn't affect you in any way other than battery" + "they prob went with the cheapest option that still works, just like they did with CPU"), prob apps being fully in RAM and not swap, not closing old apps, etc. So like FF & 3 chat/social media apps (they all have inefficiently big libraries), a few store and service apps (for car/taxi/food delivery/etc), none need to leave RAM. Idk how to get to 32, but perhaps over 16.

And again I point out that it's just what they did for the project to survive, it's clearly frankensteined from the cheapest sensible parts. In your analogy the i3 with 32 or 128GB of RAM, if sold at the same price, will preform the same for most users.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Keep the programs in RAM so I can switch between them. Even my Pixel kills the game when I navigate away from it. It just thinks I have way too much shit open. So my phone has 12 GB of RAM and it's not nearly enough to multitask